“Mugs”, “Rehabilitation”, and “Stitched Up”

• Autores: Ian Smith
• Localización: Coolabah, ISSN-e 1988-5946, Nº. 29 (Modern Australia was conceived as a British convict colony, and this relatively recent past steeped), 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Crime and Punishment), págs. 43-46
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Smith’s poetry asks questions of crime and punishment from the victims’ and perpetrators’ perspectives. In “Mugs” an easy victim reflects on the burglar of his house. In “Rehabilitation” a former prisoner returns to his prison, converted into gentrified townhouses.

    In “Stitched” Up the boredom, inanity, banality, and a soft pain of prison life is exposed.